Physics of Ionized Nebulae

Izquierda - Imagen RGB de la nebulosa de Orión y M43 obtenida filtros estrechos con la cámara WFC en el INT: H alfa (rojo), [S II] 6716+30 (verde), [O III] 5007 (azul). Derecha - Imagen en falso color de la nebulosa planetaria NGC 6778. En azul se ve la emisión en la línea de O II tomada con el filtro sintonizable azul del instrumento OSIRIS en el GTC; en verde imagen con el filtro estrecho de [O III] del Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT).
Start year
1986
Organizational Unit
RESEARCH DIVISION
Organizing institutions
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)

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General
Description

The research that is being carried out by the group can be condensed into two main lines:

1) Study of the structure, dynamics, physical conditions and chemical evolution of Galactic and extragalactic ionized nebulae through detailed analysis and modelization of their spectra. Investigation of chemical composition gradients along the disk of our Galaxy and in nearby galaxies.

2) Determine the physical-chemical conditions of galactic planetary nebulae with bipolar geometry and nebulae around symbiotic stars. The aim is to understand the origin of bipolarity and to test theoretical models that attempt to explain nebular morphology and kinematics, with special emphasis on models with central binary stars. We will also study the implications of the evolution of binary systems in other astrophysical scenarios, such as the formation of jets, cataclysmic variables, and nova and supernova-type explosions.

Principal investigator
Project manager
Project staff
Collaborators
Dr.
J. E. Méndez-Delgado
Instituto de Astronomía - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Dr.
A.R. López Sánchez
Australian Astronomical Observatory
Dr.
F. Bresolin
University of Hawaii- Institute for Astronomy
Dr.
C. Morisset
Instituto de Astronomía - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Dr.
L. Carigi
Instituto de Astronomía - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Dr.
M. Peimbert
Instituto de Astronomía - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Dr.
M. Peña
Instituto de Astronomía - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Dr.
S. Akras
National Observatory of Athens
Dr.
M. Rodríguez
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica- Óptica y Electrónica de México - INAOE
Dr.
F. F. Rosales-Ortega
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica- Óptica y Electrónica de México - INAOE
Dr.
X. Fang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr.
N.C. Sterling
University of West Georgia
Dr.
R. Wesson
University of Cardiff
Dr.
H. Monteiro
Universidade Federal de Itajubá
Dr.
H. Boffin
European Southern Observatory
Dra.
K. Z. Arellano Córdoba
University of Edinburgh- Institute for Astronomy
Dr.
M. Miller Bertolami
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - CONICET
Dra.
G. Stasinska
Observatoire de Paris - Site de Meudon
Dr.
T. Hillwig
Valparaiso University
Dr.
U. Munari
Osservatorio di Padova
Dr.
M. Santander García
Observatorio Astronomico Nacional Madrid
Dra.
K. Kreckel
Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg
Dra.
L. Magrini
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
Dr.
K. Bouvis
National Observatory of Athens
Prof.
J. Drew
University College London
Prof.
L. Konstantinou
National Observatory of Athens
Dr.
D. R. Gonçalves
Observatorio do Valongo
Dra.
L. Sabin
Instituto de Astronomía - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Dra.
R. Greimel
University of Graz- Institute of Physics
Dr.
A. Prsa
Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA
  1. Using EMIR/GTC spectra in the near infrared range, tellurium and bromine emission lines have been detected for the first time in two planetary nebulae. These heavy element detections in one of their places where they are formed, give us information about the abundance patterns of heavy elements owing to the r-process and the s-process.

Related publications

A detailed study of the barium central star of the planetary nebula Abell 70 2022MNRAS.516.4833J
MUSSES2020J: The Earliest Discovery of a Fast Blue Ultraluminous Transient at Redshift 1.063 2022ApJ...933L..36J
Photoionized Herbig-Haro objects in the Orion Nebula through deep high-spectral resolution spectroscopy - III. HH 514 2022MNRAS.514..744M
About Metallicity Variations in the Local Galactic Interstellar Medium 2022ApJ...931...92E
Spectroscopic analysis tool for intEgraL fieLd unIt daTacubEs (SATELLITE): case studies of NGC 7009 and NGC 6778 with MUSE 2022MNRAS.512.2202A
The ionised and molecular mass of post-common-envelope planetary nebulae. The missing mass problem 2022A&A...658A..17S
MUSE spectroscopy of planetary nebulae with high abundance discrepancies 2022MNRAS.510.5444G
Gradients of chemical abundances in the Milky Way from H II regions: distances derived from Gaia EDR3 parallaxes and temperature inhomogeneities 2022MNRAS.510.4436M
TESS Eclipsing Binary Stars. I. Short-cadence Observations of 4584 Eclipsing Binaries in Sectors 1-26 2022ApJS..258...16P
On the most luminous planetary nebulae of M 31 2022A&A...657A..71G
The post-common-envelope binary central star of the planetary nebula Ou 5: a doubly eclipsing post-red-giant-branch system 2022MNRAS.510.3102J
High-resolution Hα imaging of the northern Galactic plane and the IGAPS image database 2021A&A...655A..49G
Resolving the Circumstellar Environment of the Galactic B[e] Supergiant Star MWC 137.II. Nebular Kinematics and Stellar Variability 2021AJ....162..150K
The Missing Link? Discovery of Pulsations in the Nitrogen-rich PG 1159 Star PG 1144+005 2021ApJ...918L...1S
Photoionized Herbig-Haro Objects in the Orion Nebula through Deep High Spectral Resolution Spectroscopy. II. HH 204 2021ApJ...918...27M
Binary central stars of planetary nebulae identified with Kepler/K2 2021MNRAS.506.5223J
HiPERCAM: a quintuple-beam, high-speed optical imager on the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias 2021MNRAS.507..350D
Electron temperature fluctuations in Seyfert galaxies 2021MNRAS.506L..11R
Towards a more complete sample of binary central stars of planetary nebulae with Gaia 2021A&A...648A..95C
Forbidden hugs in pandemic times. II. The luminous red nova variety: AT 2020hat and AT 2020kog 2021A&A...647A..93P
A tidally tilted sectoral dipole pulsation mode in the eclipsing binary TIC 63328020 2021MNRAS.503..254R
Forbidden hugs in pandemic times. I. Luminous red nova AT 2019zhd, a new merger in M 31 2021A&A...646A.119P
Photoionized Herbig-Haro objects in the Orion Nebula through deep high-spectral resolution spectroscopy - I. HH 529 II and III 2021MNRAS.502.1703M
H α fluxes and extinction distances for planetary nebulae in the IPHAS survey of the northern galactic plane 2021MNRAS.501.6156D
On the radial abundance gradients of nitrogen and oxygen in the inner Galactic disc 2021MNRAS.502..225A
Atomic Data Assessment with PyNeb 2020Atoms...8...66M
A plague of magnetic spots among the hot stars of globular clusters 2020NatAs...4.1092M
Physics of Eclipsing Binaries. V. General Framework for Solving the Inverse Problem 2020ApJS..250...34C
The post-common-envelope binary central star of the planetary nebula PN G283.7-05.1. A possible post-red-giant-branch planetary nebula central star 2020A&A...642A.108J
The post-common-envelope binary central star of the planetary nebula ETHOS 1 2020MNRAS.498.6005M
A study of extragalactic planetary nebulae populations based on spectroscopy. I. Data compilation and first findings 2020MNRAS.498.5367D
Abell 30 - A binary central star among the born-again planetary nebulae 2020MNRAS.498L.114J
The impact of strong recombination on temperature determination in planetary nebulae 2020MNRAS.498L..82G
The Galactic radial abundance gradients of C, N, O, Ne, S, Cl, and Ar from deep spectra of H II regions 2020MNRAS.496.1051A
Tidally trapped pulsations in a close binary star system discovered by TESS 2020NatAs...4..684H
Helium abundances and its radial gradient from the spectra of H II regions and ring nebulae of the Milky Way 2020MNRAS.496.2726M
IGAPS: the merged IPHAS and UVEX optical surveys of the northern Galactic plane 2020A&A...638A..18M
The single-sided pulsator CO Camelopardalis 2020MNRAS.494.5118K
AT 2019abn: multi-wavelength observations over the first 200 days 2020A&A...637A..20W
Physics of Eclipsing Binaries. IV. The Impact of Interstellar Extinction on the Light Curves of Eclipsing Binaries 2020ApJS..247...63J
An old problem about the measurement of the chemical composition of the universe has been resolved
Type
Research
State
In progress
Stellar & Interstellar Physics (FEEI)
The Milky Way and the Local Group (MWLG)

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